Friday, 25 April 2008

Amorous ferns

19 comments:

eyrie
said...

This has nothing to do with ferns, but public service announcement for the benefit of your Sydney readers (in exchange for the information about the local valrhona distributor): The UNSW book fair is on in the roundhouse this weekend. I think it's open until 2pm today and that Sunday is the cheap day. It can sometimes be the best of the Sydney book fairs, although it has gone down a bit from when it was biannual. I certainly had a magnificent haul yesterday evening.

One need not be monied to buy Criticism and Ideology for 50 cents, dinner be damned!

Apologies for coming over like a classified column, but I had that pearly flush I get when I've just acquired cheap secondhand books and I felt I should spread the joy, as some sort of recompense to the universe for granting me the joy. It's a good thing I was nowhere near a computer after I went to Hay-on-Wye!

Non-sentient Pteridophyta seeks another non-sentient Pteridophyta for the purposes of establishing a long and loving relationship and/or sporing. Gender not important. We may lack rudimentary brains, free will, or ability to make intelligent decisions of our own, but that doesn't mean we can't come to a romantic agreement. Come on, lover - you chlorophyll up my life, and I'll chlorophyll up yours. But while I might be a Polypodiophyta, I'm not into polygamy!

And remember: as the Poet once said: "Absence maketh the heart grow frondler."

Without your poems, Tim, I've been quite bereft of amusement and have been hitting the Thomas Hardy hard (to complement my gloom. I am almost gloomy enough for a round of Jude the Obscure). Really, I should have picked up Ogden Nash for $1.

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Alexis, Baron von Harlot, is self-appointed Chronicler Laureate to the principality of Lalor, Victoria, Australia, including the lesser adjoining suburbs of Epping and Thomastown, and wherever she happens to be, really. These annals relay her keenly observed observations on matters floral, faunal, anthropological, protozoic, and thingy, with reference to the backyard, down the road, geopolitics, and the complete works of Jeanette Winterson.